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Mason City Globe-Gazette (Newspaper) - February 26, 1963, Mason City, Iowa
Church unity grows See story page 2 HOME EDITION Reuther asks flexible week MIAMI BEACH Fla Walter Reuther said Tuesday he favors a flexible work week shifted according to changes m economic winds rather than the rigid 35hour week advo catedby most other AFLCIO leaders Reuther head of the Auto Workers Union said in an in terview that he was not opposed to a straight slash in the present 40hour work week as called for by fellow federation leaders I just happen to prefer the flexible week idea he said Reuther said a 35hour week could badly hurt some indus tries and actually cause increased unemployment Instead he proposed a formula that would reduce the standard work week automatically and progressively as unemployment reached prescribed levels The details are not important he said Its a concept of a full employment week There would be a payroll tax to accumulate a national fund if the work week should fall to say a 37hour week Payments from the fund would provide 40hour regular pay to employes working the temporary 37hour wefek They would get additional overtime for work after 37 hours If there was practically full as Reuther suggested an idle rate of no more than 2 to 25 per cent it is now 58 per would stay on a regular 40 hour week What we really want Reuther said is not morelei sure but full 40hour wages and work for everybody If the economy cannot provide enough jobs the equalization fund from payroll tax collections would continue 40hour pay but on a reduced workweek basis The AFLCIO Executive Council was expected to issue a new appeal for its 35hour week goal at windup sessions Tues day The council held 10day winter meetings here The newspaper that makes all North lowans neighbors MASON CITY GLOBEGAZETTE VOL 103 MASON CITY IOWA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26 1963 ICo copy No IS Four Yanks killed in Cuba WASHINGTON AP Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans1 field has acknowledged that dur ing the heat of the 1961 Cuban invasion several Americans vol unteered to fly combat missions and four lost their lives Thus the Senates Republican leader Everett M Dirksen of Il linois got no argument from the administrations chief Senate spokesman on his charge Monday invasion fiasco that four Americans had been shot down in the Bay of fi asco Mansfield who said that in this case he was speaking only for himself added some details in his statement It is known that a few exper ienced American airmen were employed to train Cuban pilots navigators and radio operators Photofax WINS PANCAKE Risby 18 com pletes her race and is declared winner of the Olney leg of the international pancake race at Olney Eng land She negotiated the 415yard course in one min ute ten seconds Housewives were to compete in LiberalKan against Miss Risbys time Cold drops on Iowa New lows By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A mass of culd air settled over Iowa and dropped temperatures to record lows for a Feb 26 at some places Audubon and Winterset appar entiy werethe coldest spots with 25 below zero readings early Tuesday Other low temperatures in cluded Charles City Mason City airport Spencer Des Moines and Waterloo and Ot tumwa Sioux City and La moni The mrcury fell only to zero at Council Bluffs Mason Citys low was 6 degree colder than the previous record for this date set in 1S34 Charles City was 1 degree under the mark set in 1926 and Ottumwa also was 1 degree under the record set in 1934 Des Moines reading tied the record low for this date in the capital city set in 1897 The frigid air should move quickly out of Iowa Tuesday as southerly winds bring warmer air into the state Highs Tuesday should range from the teens in the east to the 20s in the west Temperatures Tuesday nigh will not drop much from the after noon highs The Highway Commission said Tuesday that highways in the are west of Cresco and in the area around Montezuma were 25 per cent icy Other highways across the state were normal M F Zack nominated for state conservation post M F Mike Zack Mason1 City has been nominated by Gov Harold Hughes to a six year term on the State Conser vation Commission Zack is owner of Zack Brothers Elec tric Co a Democrat and sec retary of the Cerro Gordo Coun ty Conservation Board since its organization in July 1958 Zacks nomination together with three others made Tues day now goes to the Iowa Sen ate for confirmation Jf this is received theappointment be comes effective July 1 A member of Trinity Luther an Church he has served as chairman of the congregation Zack is 63 and a lifetime resi dent of Iowa He is a past pres ident of the Association for the ICY Boutiette 14 of Woonsocket RI is pulled from ice crusted Blackstone River after he and a companion were pitched into water Photofax when their small boat upset The com panion Ronald LHeureux 16 drowned in an attempt to rescue Arthur who does not swim Iowa Clear to partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday night lows 510 northeast to the 20s southwest Wednesday mostly cloudy windy and warmer with scattered light snow northwest highs 20s northeast to 40s southwest Further out cloudiness with scattered snow flurries likely and a little colder Thursday Minnesota Considerable cloudi ness and warmer Tuesday night with scattered light snow SAME BUck Meant Traffic Dealk tm M Charge Humboldt firms in packing act violations CHICAGO M The US De partmcnt of Agriculture Tues day charged two Humboldt Iowa livestock firms with vio lating the Packers and Stock yards Act by operating while allegedly insolvent Separate complaints were is sued against Humboldt Live stock Investment Co Inc and Humboldt Livestock Commission Co Inc mostly north lows zero to 10 below north to 10 above s o u t h Considerable cloudiness with scattered light snow Wednesday colder north warmer southeast but turning colder south by afternoon highs 618 north 1518 nearoperational model of Pershing artillery missile Pershing missile has first success CAPE CANAVERAL Fla GlobeGazette weather data up to 8 am Tuesday Maximum 9 Minimum 18 Sunrise Sunset has registered its first lest flight success The new Persh ing Group 4 missile was fired under simulated tactical condi tions Monday night and hit target 130 miles away N ews m a PROM OUR WIR6 SERVICES Moon trip coming Swift closes SiouxCity packing plant SIOUX CITY Co closed its Sioux City mea packing piant indefinitely Tuesday in the midst of a snowballing labor dispute The announcement was made by the firms Chicago headquar ters Robert B Cowan general man ager said the plant would be placed in mothballs and woulc not reopen until the United Pack inghouse Workers Union gave strict assurance it would abide by a no strikeno slowdown clause in the contract On the inside Editorials Page 4 Clear Lake news 6 Society news 89 North news 10 Sports 1112 Latest markets 14 Mason City news 1415 Comics 16 Farmnews 17 reservation of Clear Lake a iast president of the North Cen ral Iowa Rod and Gun Club nd a past president of the Na ionaf Electrical Apparatus Service Assn He helped to organize the owa Association of County Con ervation Boards in 1958 anc ierved as president of the group n 1960 He was a member oi he board of directors until 19G2 He has been an active mem her of the Mason City Rotarj for 16 years is a director of the Olson Finance Co Ma on City and is a veteran of World War I Mr and Mrs Zack live at 852 Gth SE They have one daugh er Mrs Robert Vivian Schur franz Fayetteville Ark Others nominated Tuesday bj the Democratic governor are Melvin H Wolf 39 Waterlot torney can didate for lieutenant governo last November to sixyea term on the Board of Regents William E Timmons 38 c Dubuque to a second fouryea term as state insurance com missioner Louis P Culver 54 Dunlaj farmer to a second sixyea term on the Iowa Natural Re sources Council Webb chief of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration reporta the United States still expects to land a man on the moon in this an unexpected even tuality such as learning that man could not live and work at zero gravity M F ZACK ecause of exhaustion of Cuban lots several of these Americans olunteered to fly combat mis ons Apparpntly a decision was lade by those directing opera ons to accept this offer Several lanes were attacked and four of iese Americans lost their lives lansfield said Shortly before Mansfields state nent the Castro government sent stiff note dealing with a more SEN MIKE MANSFIELD Venus too hot to serve human life WASHINGTON UPD This countrys Mariner 2 spacecraft determined that the surface temperature of Venus is about 500 degrees Fahrenheit far too iot for life as it is known on earth This was reported by space scientists Tuesday along with several other discoveries made by Mariner The spacecraft flew within 21648 miles of Ve nus last Dec 14 after a day voyage from Earth Briefly this is what the 447 pound craft reported Venus is covered by cold dense clouds in the upper at mosphere It has an average surface temperature of about 800 de grees some 200 degrees hotter than the melting point of lead The planet has a mysterious cold spot in the atmosphere of its southern hemisphere The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA reported the most recently an alyzed result of Mariners flight at a news conference here Previous radio studies of Ve mis had pointed toward many of the findings made by Mariner the findings made by Marinner Wants Irish rights CARSON CITY State Sen James Slatter has introduced a bill in the Nevada legisla ture calling for equal rights for the Irish The bill was referred for study to the Fish and Game Com mittee because according to one senator the Irish are considered fair game Ransom to Cuba ransom tons of baby food worth an estimated delivered Monday by the freighter Priamus for liber ation of the Bay of Pigs invaders It was the fourth big installment payment for the freedom of the 1113 prisoners Death anticipated VALENZA PO Lo Re 34 lost his balance and dropped to his death while working atop a building project Monday In his pocket police found a letter from his wife in Sicily Please come home at once Last night I had a terrifying dream about you If you dont return immediately something horrible will happen Lo you PROTESTS NAZIS gesturing shouting man is led away by two Chicago policemen from the scene on the University of Chicago Photofax campus when the man was in a group protesting the appearance of members of the American Nazi party Monday nigh I recent weeks attack 3n a US shrimp boat Cuba denied that its planes had ired on the boat and then count rcharged that two US Air Force ets machinegunned Cuban terri tory early this month endanger ng the lives of Russian and ban oil workers The US State Department ermed the denial propaganda Dirksen said in an interview that he had uncovered evidence of the deaths of the four fliers in his oneman investigation of the USbacked invasion which col iapsed under the fire of Fidel Castros forces Neither Dirksen nor Mansfield gave any names but the incident was strikingly similar to one dis closed May 4 1961 about two weeks after the assault At a news conference in Birm ingham Ala a Miami Springs Fla lawyer announced that four men recruited by his firm Check Corp of Mi fly for antiCastro forces apparently had been killed The lawyer Alex E Carlson said their cargo plane had crashed in the Caribbean He identified the four all from the Birmingham area as Riley W Shamburger 36 pilot Thomas WillardRaycopilct Leo F Bak er 35 engineer and Wade Car roll Gray 33 radioman These men knew what they were getting Mb Carlson said It was a calculated they came backthey had a nice nest egg Theirfamilies hesaid would receive substanjialbenefits as part of the contract identified the plane at a C46 and said the four reported one of their engines Had gone out and they were losingaltitude A search he saidjturned up wreck age but nobodies The Washington Post said these apparently were the four men Dirksen wasreferring to The pa per said afriend of one of the lost fliers sentto Dirksen about six weeks ago a clipping of the account from the Birmingham News Another version of the case was reported in a recent issue of the US News and World Report In an interview Gonzalo Her rer former pilot for Cubana Air lines who was operation officer of the invaders B26 squadron gave adescription of how four Ameri he did not name died in the hectic hours of the in vasion Onthe last day of the battle our pilots were so exhausted that some American instructors volun teered to fly into combat They didnt have to do that It wasnt their job But they volunteered Four went None came back Dirksen said details of his in vestigation including names of he four fliers will be made pub lic perhaps this week The controversy over the pres ent Cuban situation continued to sputter The Castro governments for mal denial that its MIGs fired on the US shrimp boat last week was delivered to the State De partment late Monday by Czech Ambassador Miloslav Ruzek It said the planes were searching for two small boats stolen from a fishing cooperative when they spotted the shrimp boat The MIGs said the Cuban note approached the shrimp boat but flew away without fir ing a shot The United States rejected the explanation as propaganda US Marine pilots sweeping out to check on the MIGs which had been located on radar said they saw the Cuban MIGs fire rockets which came within 10 yards of the shrimp boat the Ala A Slate Department spokesman jsaid the Cuban note also contained new trumpedup charges of at tacks on Cuban fishing vessels MORE HELP TOKYO Communist China said Tuesday it is grant ing Fidel Castros Cuban govern ment easier credit terms to cover what Havana owes Pek ing
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